The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages

Time-resolved comparative molecular evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2021) Thomas Oliver et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Biologically mediated silicification of marine cyanobacteria and implications for the Proterozoic fossil record

(2020) Kelsey R. Moore et al.   GEOLOGY

Assessing the accuracy of phylogenetic rooting methods on prokaryotic gene families

(2020) Taylor Wade et al.   PLoS One

Niche expansion for phototrophic sulfur bacteria at the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition

(2020) Xingqian Cui et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insights Into the Evolution of Picocyanobacteria and Phycoerythrin Genes (mpeBA and cpeBA)

(2019) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Paleozoic diversification of terrestrial chitin-degrading bacterial lineages

(2019) Danielle S. Gruen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Timing the Evolutionary Advent of Cyanobacteria and the Later Great Oxidation Event Using Gene Phylogenies of a Sunscreen

(2019) Ferran Garcia-Pichel et al.   mBio

An Expanded Ribosomal Phylogeny of Cyanobacteria Supports a Deep Placement of Plastids

(2019) Kelsey R. Moore et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

New insights on the Orosirian carbon cycle, early Cyanobacteria, and the assembly of Laurentia from the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group

(2019) Malcolm S.W. Hodgskiss et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese

(2019) Mirna Daye et al.   NATURE

The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age

(2018) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Geobiology

Horizontal gene transfer constrains the timing of methanogen evolution

(2018) Joanna M. Wolfe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Gene transfers can date the tree of life

(2018) Adrián A. Davín et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses

(2018) Jaime Huerta-Cepas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Neoarchean (2.7 Ga) lacustrine stromatolite deposits in the Hartbeesfontein Basin, Ventersdorp Supergroup, South Africa: Implications for oxygen oases

(2018) D.T. Wilmeth et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

An eukaryote-bearing microbiota from the early mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Tianjin, China and its significance

(2017) Min Shi et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats

(2017) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria

(2017) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   SCIENCE

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

(2017) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   Science Advances

Crown group Oxyphotobacteria postdate the rise of oxygen

(2016) P. M. Shih et al.   Geobiology

Photosynthesis and early Earth

(2015) Patrick M. Shih   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event: evidence from genes and fossils

(2015) Bettina E. Schirrmeister et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Proterozoic photosynthesis - a critical review

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa)

(2015) Martin Homann et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Origin of marine planktonic cyanobacteria

(2015) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo   Scientific Reports

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks

(2014) L. Eme et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The Meaning of Stromatolites

(2013) Tanja Bosak et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Modelling spatial and temporal patterns in size-structured marine plankton communities: top–down and bottom–up controls

(2013) Ben A. Ward et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Gene Evolution Indicates Photosystem Gene Duplication, Not Photosystem Merger, at the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2012) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogenetic modeling of lateral gene transfer reconstructs the pattern and relative timing of speciations

(2012) G. J. Szollosi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archean tufted microbial mats and the Great Oxidation Event: new insights into an ancient problem

(2011) D. T. Flannery et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Dating the cyanobacterial ancestor of the chloroplast

(2010) Luisa I Falcón et al.   ISME Journal

FASconCAT: Convenient handling of data matrices

(2010) Patrick Kück et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen

(2009) C. E. BLANK et al.   Geobiology

Okenane, a biomarker for purple sulfur bacteria (Chromatiaceae), and other new carotenoid derivatives from the 1640Ma Barney Creek Formation

(2007) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA